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MTHIMKULU, Siphiwo

Age 19

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Was one of two ANC members abducted by the Eastern Cape Security Branch in Port Elizabeth on 14 April 1982. They were given a drink containing a sedative and shot in the head. Their bodies were placed on a pile of branches, doused with diesel and then set alight. Their remains were allegedly thrown into the Fish River. Four members of the Eastern Cape Security Branch, including the divisional commander, were granted amnesty for this operation (AC/2000/034).

... he could not to be named in TRC proceedings without prior notification and an opportunity to make representation. Thus ruling which prevented the Mthimkulu family from testifying in these hearings had major a logistical impact as anyone who would be named in public hearings had to be given ...
Siphiwo Mtimkulu. The young student leader who turned into a ghost, who turned into ashes. But this week was the start of the great telling of one of apartheid’s most heinous crimes. Four security policemen, two generals and two colonels faced the nation to unravel the secrets surrounding the ...
... Commission. // I am thanking God that this day has come. That’s what kept me … // She and her husband Sipho are armed with a set of diaries Siphiwo Mtimkulu wrote in detention. It tells the story of a gang of Eastern Cape security policemen who savaged and brutalised the young man. // ...
Siphiwo Mtimkulu was the charismatic leader of the Congress of Students in Port Elizabeth in 1980. In May 1981 he was detained by the security police and only released five months later. // He admitted that he was ill. I wanted to know what was wrong with him. He stated that he had an excruciating ...
 
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